"You have cancer." For Pam Khosla, MD, decades of experience don't ease the burden that comes with saying those words. 

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, infects immature red blood cells, reducing oxygen in the blood and hindering immune response, according to a new study published in Stem Cell Reports.

A patient who died in the emergency room at the Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Gainesville, Fla., was incorrectly triaged, according to a June 3 report from the VA Office of Inspector General.

Many nurses at Michigan hospitals say some personal protective equipment is still in short supply and inadequate staffing is hindering best care practices, reports CW affiliate WWMT.

A third of adolescents hospitalized with COVID-19 need intensive care, according to CDC data published June 4. 

COVID-19 cases have fallen significantly in the U.S. over the last week, according to the CDC's COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review published June 4.

Postoperative sepsis rates increased among children who were hospitalized early  in the pandemic, a study published June 1 in Hospital Pediatrics found.

HIV infections in the U.S. are down significantly since the CDC reported the first case in 1981, though disparities persist, according to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published June 4. 

Tallahassee-based Florida A&M University School of Nursing has been put on a two-year probation by the state's nursing board because of its low first-time passing rates, reports the school's news publication FAMU Forward.

President Joe Biden is aiming to reach 70 percent of U.S. adults vaccinated with at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose by July 4, though a New York Times analysis projects that the nation will fall just short of that goal. 

In most cases, samples from blood donors do not need to be tested for SARS-CoV-2, with current blood donor screening guidelines safe to continue following, the National Institutes of Health said June 1. 

Researchers from New Haven, Conn.-based Yale University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania used tracking chips in nurses' badges to investigate how a facility's layout affected nurses' behavior and patient care, according to a June 2 report published in Yale Insights.

The delta coronavirus variant, first discovered in India, is more likely to lead to hospitalizations than the alpha variant first detected in the U.K., and may more easily evade vaccination efforts, according to data cited in a Public Health England report published June 3.

A coronavirus mutation first detected in Vietnam does not meet the World Health Organization's definition of a new variant, according to the global health body's Vietnam representative. 

President Joe Biden has declared June a "national month of action," laying out further efforts to meet his deadline of 70 percent of U.S. adults vaccinated against COVID-19 by July 4.

New Mexico is rolling out a COVID-19 lottery program that will offer one COVID-19 vaccine recipient a $5 million grand prize, representing one of the largest such awards being offered in the nation, reports The New York Times.

While the death rate for end-stage renal disease patients in the U.S. has declined since 2001, between 6,953 and 10,316 excess deaths in patients with ESRD occurred during the first seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to estimates published June 1 in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 

The National Institutes of Health has launched an early stage clinical trial evaluating the response when someone who has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 later gets a different type of booster shot. 

The CDC's eased mask restrictions haven't yet been tied to any new COVID-19 surges, according to data tracked by The New York Times.

A little-known yet serious autonomic nervous system disorder is surfacing among an unknown number of COVID-19 long-haulers, or people who experience persistent or worsening symptoms long after the infection has cleared, Kaiser Health News reported June 1.